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Discovery channel spotlights UO professor
■ ANTHROPOLOGIST: Dr.
William Ayers is unraveling
the mystery to an early
civilization in the South
Pacific
By Andrea De Young
Associate Editor
Some professors at the Univer-.
sity spend their summers teach
ing classes. Others take the
months off to recuperate from the
year that has finished.
Dr. William Ayers, an anthro
pology professor at the Universi
ty, spends his summers in the
South Pacific. But he’s not sitting
on the sand, sipping a tropical
drink. Ayers is looking for an
swers about an early civilization.
For more than 15 years, Ayers
has been conducting research on
the island of Pohnpei, uncover
ing and examining artifacts about
the site of Nan Madol; a place
where people began building a
city around 500 AD, and disap
peared just when the city began
to thrive.
Ayers’ research led him to
working with Odyssey Produc
tions in Portland. Together, they
developed a nine-minute pilot
film that they showed to the Dis
covery Channel. The culmination
of this project came Sunday
evening when Ayers’ research on
Nan Madol was a part of the
“Discovery Magazine” program.
The segment, which was shot
mostly last summer on Pohnpei,
showed how Ayers and his col
leagues have discovered some of
the mysteries surrounding Nan
Madol and how they axe going
about uncovering the answers to
these mysteries.
What’s left of Nan Madol are
ruins made up of large blocks of
stone on a coral reef. One of the
biggest questions is how the peo
ple of the island brought the
stone slabs to the area and built
them on top of one another. Each
slab was in excess of 600 pounds.
Ayers is also studying the peo
ple of Nan Madol. Using a series
of sophisticated photographs and
computers, he has put together a
computerized simulation of how
the area might have looked. Ay
ers said this is the best way to un
derstand something so old.
“There are different ways of in
terpreting the past,” he said.
“The most common is oral histo
ry. But that only goes back a short
time. Archaeology is the only
way to reconstruct the past for
the prehistoric period.”
Ayers also said he is able to
use his experience at Nan Madol
as a tool in his teaching.
“Graduates and undeigrads are
involved in the summer re
search,” he said. “They also work
on conserving and caring for arti
facts in the archaeology laborato
ry and a lot of students work On
the analysis of the artifacts.”
There is still a lot to be uncov
ered, and Ayers expects the work
to be continued for decades.
“We have only scratched the
surface at Nan Madol,” he said.
The “Islands of Mystery” seg
ment of the “Discovery Maga
zine” program will be rebroad
cast Saturday, August 17 and
again in the fall.
: Ait Museum lands grant for fourth year in a row
■ MONEY: The University Musuem of
Art will use the $6,500 to help fund
exhibitions this year
By Kristin Bailey
Associate Editor
The University Museum of Art is reaping
the rewards of a grant from the Oregon Arts
Commission. For the fourth year in a row, the
museum received monies to support visual
arts exhibitions.
“This is a wonderful show of support for
us,” said Lawrence Fong, museum associate
director. “It recognizes all the arts.”
The $6,500 grant will be used to help fund
exhibitions in the upcoming school year,
Fong said. Fall term will mark the debut of
“New Traditionalists,” a display of paintings
by contemporary artists. The money will also
help fund the winter term exhibition “Fra
grance of Ink,” historical paintings by Korean
scholars.
“Having the state arts commission recog
nize this institution is significant,” Fong said.
“It symbolizes how the arts contribute to our
livelihoods.”
The Oregon Arts Commission has awarded
a total of $918, 504 in grants to 90 arts organi
zations throughout Oregon. The commission
is a program within the Oregon Department of
Economic Development. The program was es
tablished in 1967 to promote the arts in Ore
gon.
Visual arts grants like the one received by
the University are to be used to help with the
operating expenses that go along with exhibi
tions and public programming. The monies
can be used to help pay for workshops, visit
ing lecturers and exhibition catalogues.
“Oregon’s arts organizations contribute far
more than arts programs to the culture of the
state,” Arts Commission Executive Director
Christine D’Arcy said. “The artists, designers,
directors and others who create these pro
grams help build communities and contribute
to the state’s economy.”
Grant recipients had to apply for funding.
Citizen review panels evaluated the applica
tions and assessed each based on artistic mer
it, management practices, public access to arts
programs and need within the community.
Movie extra experience proves to be entertaining
By Chris Hutchinson
Freelance Reporter
I came away from my movie
extra experience with a couple of
things: a chance to be in a real
movie, a nice paycheck, and a
sunburn.
I arrived Friday, at a very early
6 a.m., with several hundred fel
low extras. We were told we’d be
paid $40 for eight hours and $7.50
per hour of overtime. All of us
waited in the “check-in” line, and
after we filled out the proper pa
perwork we were off.
The first stop was "wardrobe,”
and another line to wait in. The
two Warner Bros, employees in
the wardrobe truck worked quick
ly, outfitting everyone in the
proper 1970s attire. I received a
cool white butterfly-collared shirt
and was allowed to wear the tan
slacks and Adidas shoes that I
brought with me.
Next, we were herded onto “the
set” (as Hayward Field was
known throughout the weekend).
There were several different
groups of extras. One group was a
Prefontaine fan club, another was
a group of track timekeepers and
officials, and another (my group)
was audience members.
The film crew needed to recre
ate the 1972 Olympic Trials and
an Oregon vs. Stanford track
meet, so audience members were
clumped in the first few rows of
the stands and lined up on the
fence around the track. I was one
of the fans along the fence watch
ing the staged event. I cheered
through take after take for the next
five hours in the hot sun for our
hero Pre. During filming, the staff
members passed out suntan
cream and water to the extras, so
it wasn’t unbearable.
Filially, at 2 p.nt, We were giw
en a break... lunch time. The food
that was provided wasn’t bad:
chicken, potatoes, cake, and
lemonade. After a half hour, it
was back to the set. This time I
got to sit in the shaded stands. But
after more filming, I was moved
back to the fence and back into
the sun. Lucky me.
At 8 p.m., we had a “wrap” (I
learned a lot of movie lingo). I
turned in my cool-looking shirt
and headed home. I was there for
14 hours.
Saturday was more of the same.
The only difference this time was
the group of paid-extras was quite
a bit smaller. They also made us
wear jackets because they were
recreating an autumn scene. Jack
ets in ninety-degree heat ... not
fun. The second day went by
much quicker, and we were fin
ished at 8:30 that night.
I was really amazed at the
amount of preparation and orga
nization that goes into the making
of a movie, not to mention the
number of people who work on a
set. During the two days, I saw
two big Hollywood actors. Jeremy
Sisto (of “Clueless” and “Hide
away” fame) who plays a track
runner from the University of
Florida competing with Pre, and
Donald Sutherland who plays
Steve Prefontaine’s coach, Bill
Dellinger.
I’m excited to go see the movie
when it comes to theaters. I’m
even more excited to buy this
movie when it comes out on
video, so I can take full advantage
of the pause button on my VCR
and find myself in the back
ground!
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